St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir

St. John the Evangelist Church, İzmir
Country	Turkey
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
Website	Official website
History
Consecrated	1899
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Administration
Archdeaconry	Eastern Archdeaconry
Diocese	Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe
Clergy
Chaplain(s)	Revd. James Buxton

The Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist, also known simply as St. John's, is located in İzmir, Turkey, in the quarter of Alsancak.

John mentions Smyrna, the modern İzmir, in Revelations 2:8-11 and one of his disciples, Polycarp, who is depicted in one of the stained glass windows of the church became bishop of Smyrna. The church shares its name with the catholic cathedral of İzmir.

The church was built in 1898-1899.

On 22 March 1911, William Collins, the Bishop of Gibraltar, died on board of the SS Saghalien en route from Constantinople to Smyrna and was subsequently buried in the church.

The New Zealander Charles Dobson (1886-1930) was Chaplain of St. John's during the Great fire of Smyrna in 1922; he escaped the burning city with his wife and two small daughters and later became a key witness in the trial about the origins of the fire. The Canadian Ronald Evans was Chaplain of St. John's for 15 years and retired on December 31, 2015. His successor is James Buxton, formerly Dean of Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was appointed as Chaplain of St. John’s İzmir and Mission to Seafarers Port Chaplain to İzmir on 18 September 2017.

St. John's is liturgically Anglo-Catholic by tradition with the use of vestments, holy water and incense.

The baptismal font of St. John the Evangelist's Church, Izmir

The altar crucifix

Angel Lectern

The grave epitaph of William Edward Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar

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